Installation Manual Patches 4: RARP cleanup

[Nathanael Nerode <neroden@fastmail.fm>]

This cleans up the details in the RARP section, while making it slightly
more informative (particularly in the presumably common Linux 2.4/2.6 case),
and making it shorter, and putting the more likely case first.  :-)

I put all changes in the public domain.

Index: rarp.xml
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--- rarp.xml	(revision 39542)
+++ rarp.xml	(working copy)
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
    <title>Setting up RARP server</title>
 <para>
 
-To setup RARP, you need to know the Ethernet address (a.k.a. the MAC address)
+To set up RARP, you need to know the Ethernet address (a.k.a. the MAC address)
 of the client computers to be installed.
 If you don't know this information, you can
 
@@ -18,6 +18,19 @@
 
 </para><para>
 
+On a RARP server system using a Linux 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, or Solaris/SunOS,
+you use the <command>rarpd</command> program.
+You need to ensure that the Ethernet hardware address for
+the client is listed in the <quote>ethers</quote> database (either in the
+<filename>/etc/ethers</filename> file, or via NIS/NIS+) and in the
+<quote>hosts</quote> database. Then you need to start the RARP daemon.
+Issue the command (as root):
+<userinput>/usr/sbin/rarpd -a</userinput> on most Linux systems and SunOS 5 (Solaris 2),
+<userinput>/usr/sbin/in.rarpd -a</userinput> on some other Linux systems,
+or <userinput>/usr/etc/rarpd -a</userinput> in SunOS 4 (Solaris 1).
+
+</para><para>
+
 On a RARP server system using a Linux 2.2.x kernel,
 you need to populate the kernel's RARP table.
 To do this, run the following commands:
@@ -42,23 +55,5 @@
 kernel to support RARP.  Try <userinput>modprobe rarp</userinput> and
 then try the <command>rarp</command> command again.
 
-</para><para>
-
-On a RARP server system using a Linux 2.4.x kernel,
-there is no RARP module, and
-you should instead use the <command>rarpd</command> program.  The
-procedure is similar to that used under SunOS in the following
-paragraph.
-
-</para><para>
-
-Under SunOS, you need to ensure that the Ethernet hardware address for
-the client is listed in the <quote>ethers</quote> database (either in the
-<filename>/etc/ethers</filename> file, or via NIS/NIS+) and in the
-<quote>hosts</quote> database. Then you need to start the RARP daemon.
-In SunOS 4, issue the command (as root):
-<userinput>/usr/etc/rarpd -a</userinput>; in SunOS 5, use
-<userinput>/usr/sbin/rarpd -a</userinput>.
-
 </para>
   </sect2>

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Nathanael Nerode  <neroden@fastmail.fm>

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